CVE-2020-3946

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-3946 · Published 20/04/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-3946 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting installbuilder (vmware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 64.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 19.11.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
installbuilder vmware	`< 19.11.0`	`19.11.0`

Description

InstallBuilder AutoUpdate tool and regular installers enabling <checkForUpdates> built with versions earlier than 19.11 are vulnerable to Billion laughs attack (denial-of-service).

References

blog.installbuilder.com/2019/12/configure-autoupdate-project-settings.html · Vendor Advisory

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